You might think you were tricky during high school with half a water bottle filled with vodka stuff under your mattress, but this is a high-level liquor vault. The NY Times reveals a Prohibition architectural gem.

After buying a home in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood—where even babies drink the finest of wines without fear of the law—architect Eric Schiller discovered a hidden hatch in his stairway. With only a small hole to pry it open, the secret door revealed " a four-foot-deep space lined with shelves and containing a ladder down which a relatively nimble individual could have made his way to retrieve a well-concealed bottle of port or aged whiskey." No word if there was any century-old hooch down there, or just how extremely nightmarish it would be to accidentally lock yourself in a four-foot-deep liquor cabinet buried in the floor. [NYT]